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16-year-old girl shot in back while celebrating her birthday

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Updated: 5/02/2012 11:17 am

SAN ANTONIO - A teenage girl was shot in the back during a drive-by shooting on the East Side Tuesday night.

The shooting happened around 8:00 p.m. Tuesday on Nellina Street, near Interstate 10 and Martin Luther King Drive. Police say the 16-year-old girl was playing volleyball with her cousins at her birthday party, when she was hit by a stray bullet. She was taken to San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC) with non life-threatening injuries.

Investigators said the girl's brother was also grazed by a bullet on Corliss Street Tuesday.

So far, no arrests have been made. Police said they are looking for a Blue Buick Roadmaster.

If you have any information about either of these shootings or the car police are searching for, please immediately contact Crime Stoppers at 224-STOP (7867), submit a tip online, or text a tip by texting "Tip 127 plus your tip" to CRIMES (274637). Callers can remain anonymous and are eligible to receive a cash reward if the information given leads to an arrest or grand jury indictment of a felony offender.

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Tenacious - 5/4/2012 8:39 AM
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Martin Luther King Drive - enough said...

sraspurs20 - 5/3/2012 12:05 PM
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Its so sad that you can't have a party in your own back yard for your children without some ome getting shot! Hope they catch the dum dum and put him in jail for ever.

CoryB5467 - 5/2/2012 11:11 AM
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More importantly, Why are there random shots being fired off anways??

JoNoes - 5/2/2012 8:40 AM
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F'ing cowards, not man enough to settle their differences face to face. They have to ride in a car like cockroaches and indiscriminately start shooting. Idiots like these drive bys should be taken to the highest cliff, put a round in their head and throw them over.

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